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Concordancing with students using an ‘off-the-Web’ corpus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Jeremy Whistle
Jeremy Whistle
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University College Northampton, UK
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Abstract

Much has been published on the subject of the role of concordancing in foreign language teaching, most of itin the field of EFL. Of crucial importance is the corpus on which concordances are based. This article describes how a pedagogic corpus can be downloaded from the Web as well as its experimental exploitation with first and second year undergraduates.

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ReCALL , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , September 1999 , pp. 74 - 80
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Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1999

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